Daysailer Used Boat Advice

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Stephen Gaddis

I am interested in purchasing a used daysailer (not sure of hull number or year mfg because I didn't know to look). Apparently the boat has a slow leak through the centerboard well (trunk?) and some small cracks in the fiberglass around where the mast attaches to the hull. Are these big concerns or appropriate for an oler boat? How should I decide whether it is worth purchasing? Thank you for helping.
 
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Rod Johnson,

These sound like fixable things

Depending on price, I would not automatically pass this boat by. The leaks may not be hard to fix, but a lot depends on whether this is a Day Sailer I or a Day Sailer II or III. The DS I is all open and so access to repair a crack in the CB trunk is pretty good, on the DS II (or III) the cockpit is molded in and so access to all but the forward 12" or the trunk is hard without cutting an access panel. The HIN (Hull I.D. Number) will be on the outside of the transom for a boat built after Nov. 1, 1972 (mine is dead-center on the outside of the transom) the HIN will look like "XDYDxxxx0974 or XDYDxxxxM75B. XDY = O'Day. D = Day Sailer (no difference DS I or II), xxxx = Class# (also called hull#), and 0974 or M75B mean that the boat was built in Sept. 1974 (M75 = 1975 model year). If this boat was built before Nov. 1, 1972 there will be a metal plate with 2 numbers on it, located on the inside of the transom or the forward flotation tank. The 2 numbers will be a "Hull#" and a "Class#" (not to be confused with above). The Hull# refers to total number of O'days built, Class# refers to the number of Day Sailers built. This Class# is the same as the Class# mentioned for post 1972 boats.
 
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